Technology
BarCap poised to move NYC trading floor in July
Barclays Capital, the investment banking arm of the UK's Barclays Bank, plans to begin moving to its new trading floor in midtown Manhattan in July, according to Nick Themelis, Barclays Capital's chief information officer for the Americas.
HSBC rolls out Rolfe & Nolan back office system in US
The UK's largest bank, HSBC, has started rolling out derivatives back office technology developed by Rolfe & Nolan (R&N) in New York and Chicago.
Against the currency grain
Mexican peso modelling
Exotic FX pulse set to race
The forex business
Senior exit heralds DrKW trouble?
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Playing catch-up
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AIB’s Rusnak put false trades into SunGard’s Devon system
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Banks seek to cut costs through customer self-service
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Job moves
QUOTE OF THE MONTH: - “I have come to you with a problem – we need to outsource our balance-sheet funding” From an e-mail sent last year by John Rusnak to an unnamed counterparty, referring to his deep-in-the-money options trades, or ‘synthetic loans'.
Servicing the e-industry
Investing in IT infrastructure development is essential in today’s often fractured environment of rival software languages and specific trading needs. Clive Davidson discovers what is on offer to bring these disparate elements together
A piece of the pie
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DataSynapse gathers momentum
DataSynapse – winner of Risk magazine’s 2002 software product of the year award for its LiveCluster product – has unveiled five new hires.
GFI offers repo traders a new derivatives tool
New York-based interdealer broker GFI has added forward allocation general collateral (FAGC) repurchase agreements and corporate bond repos to its GFInet European trading screen.